{"id":133770,"date":"2022-01-08T11:23:42","date_gmt":"2022-01-08T19:23:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/01\/saturdays-google-doodle-celebrates-physicist-stephen-hawking"},"modified":"2022-01-08T11:23:42","modified_gmt":"2022-01-08T19:23:42","slug":"saturdays-google-doodle-celebrates-physicist-stephen-hawking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/01\/saturdays-google-doodle-celebrates-physicist-stephen-hawking","title":{"rendered":"Saturday\u2019s Google Doodle Celebrates Physicist Stephen Hawking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/saturdays-google-doodle-celebrates-physicist-stephen-hawking.gif\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Today\u2019s Google Doodle honors the late physicist Stephen Hawking on his 80th birthday. Hawking was a renowned cosmologist, and he spent his career theorizing about the origins of the universe, the underlying structure of reality, and the nature of black holes. But he became a household name for the way he communicated those ideas to the public through books and TV appearances.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy goal is simple,\u201d he once said. \u201cIt is a complete understanding of the universe, why it is as it is and why it exists at all.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>One of Hawking\u2019s best-known ideas is that black holes slowly regurgitate information about all the matter they\u2019ve swallowed \u2014 but it comes out in a jumbled form called Hawking radiation. In 1974, Hawking proposed that the event horizon of a black hole emits energy. Because energy can be converted into mass, and vice versa (that\u2019s what Albert Einstein\u2019s famous equation E=MC2 tells us), emitting all that energy into space will shrink the black hole. Eventually, it will run out of mass and disappear.<\/p>\n<p>Full Story:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today\u2019s Google Doodle honors the late physicist Stephen Hawking on his 80th birthday. Hawking was a renowned cosmologist, and he spent his career theorizing about the origins of the universe, the underlying structure of reality, and the nature of black holes. But he became a household name for the way he communicated those ideas to [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-133770","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology","category-information-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133770","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=133770"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133770\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}